You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
Martin Short
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the... →
Solomon Short
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter
It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter... →
Seth Shostak
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent... →
The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the... →
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a... →
It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of light (and land it... →
It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of... →
It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's... →